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Curriculum Vitae |
Experience:
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Biologist, naturalist, writer, photographer,
lecturer, illustrator,
graphic
artist
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Co-founder of the Southeastern
Arizona Bird Observatory
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One of fewer than 150 hummingbird banders
in the U.S.; handled over 4000 individual hummingbirds of 16
species since 1990.
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Field experience includes Arizona, Texas
(north-central, Gulf Coast, lower Rio Grande Valley, Big Bend),
Belize & Tikal (10 trips, 6 as tour leader), Mexico (eastern
and western, including 6 trips to Copper Canyon as tour leader),
Colorado, California, Alaska (Pribilof Islands,
Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge), Costa Rica
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Co-manager of The Nature Conservancy's
Ramsey Canyon Preserve, 1988-1996
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Docent and wildlife rehabilitator, Fort
Worth Nature Center & Refuge, 1977-1988
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Zookeeper/aquarist, Fort Worth Zoo,
1976-1979
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Past officer of Huachuca Audubon Society,
Fort Worth Audubon Society, North Texas Herpetological Society
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B.S. in Biology from University of Texas
at Arlington, 1986
Publications/Media:
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Author of A
Field Guide to Hummingbirds of North America (Peterson
Field Guide Series®, January 2002)
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Author of Attracting
and Feeding Hummingbirds (T.F.H. Publications, March
2000)
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Author of the Blue-throated Hummingbird
species account in the Birds
of North America series (American Ornithologists
Union 2000)
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Author of title essay in
Good Birders Don't Wear White (Houghton Mifflin, 2007)
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Author of guest-expert sidebar "Good
Birders Don't Wear White" in Pete
Dunne on Bird Watching (Houghton Mifflin, 2003)
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Author of chapters on trogons in The
Sibley Guide to Bird Life & Behavior
and
The
Firefly Encyclopedia of Birds (Andromeda Oxford Ltd.
2002)
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Scriptwriter for the
Advanced Birding Video:
Hummingbirds of North America (Peregrine
Video Productions)
- Author of "First nesting of Eared Trogon in the
United States," Trogon News December 1991 [Huachuca Audubon
Society], reprinted in Winging It! July 1992 [American Birding
Association].
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Co-author with Tom Wood of chapter on hummingbirds in
the
National Geographic Reference Atlas to the Birds of North America
(which didn't turn out nearly as well as we'd
expected) -
Co-author with Tom Wood of
text for
Birds of North America, September 2005 from Sterling Publishing
(which also didn't turn out nearly as well as we'd hoped).
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Author or co-author of articles for
WildBird, Winging It! (American Birding
Association), Birder's World, A.F.A. Watchbird
(American Federation of Aviculture), The Keeper
(American Association of Zoo Keepers), various local and
regional periodicals
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Technical consultant/contributor to:
"Flights of Fancy" in January 2007 National Geographic Magazine
The
Sibley Guide to Birds by David A. Sibley
The
Lives of North American Birds by Kenn Kaufman
A
Birder's Guide to Southeastern Arizona by
Rick Taylor (Lane/ABA Guide)
Davis
and Russell's Finding Birds in Southeast Arizona
(Tucson Audubon Society)
A Guide to Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America
by Steve Howell & Sophie Webb
The World of the Hummingbird by Harry Thurston
(out of print)
How
to Spot Hawks and Eagles by Clay & Patricia Sutton
How
to Spot Butterflies by Clay & Patricia Sutton
Hummingbirds:
The Sun Catchers by Jeff & April Sayre
The Snakes of Texas by Alan Tennant (condensed
into A
Field Guide to Texas Snakes)
Birder's World magazine
Arizona Highways magazine
Ranger Rick magazine
Pop-up Video on VH1
Win Ben Stein's Money on Comedy Central
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Featured in articles that have appeared
in
National Geographic, Smithsonian, WildBird, Living Bird (Cornell Laboratory
of Ornithology), New York Times, L.A. Times; in television
series BirdWatch (PBS), The Desert Speaks (PBS),
and National Geographic Today (National Geographic Channel);
in BBC documentary series on the human senses, hosted by Nigel Marven; on radio programs for BBC
Four; and local and regional television and radio broadcasts
within the U.S.
Personal:
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Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas
(4th generation Texan)
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Lifelong bird and reptile enthusiast,
birder since 1966, aquarist since 1967, amateur botanist since
1986, butterfly watcher since 1989
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Married to Tom Wood (co-founder of SABO, former manager
of Ramsey Canyon Preserve, and former director of Fort Worth
Nature Center) since 1983
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Arizona resident since 1988, Bisbee
resident since 1995
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Wildlife gardener since 1985, catering
particularly to hummingbirds and butterflies
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"Mom" to
Jesse, a 19-year-old
captive-bred Congo African Grey Parrot; Josie,
an 8-year-old tricolor Border Collie adopted from the Bisbee animal
shelter; and Bart, a year-old kitten who adopted us after we
found him hiding behind our garbage cans one hot summer afternoon (he's
an indoor-only cat, though it's taken persistence on our part
to convince him of that). Our previous cat, Pancho, who passed away in
August 2005, was a 15-year-old, 18-pound, indoor-only cat adopted from the Humane Society of Southern Arizona
before it began promoting feral cat
colonies that compound the cruelty of abandonment, devastate local
wildlife, and endanger human health and safety.
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Lover of folk, rock, and blues (alone
and in combination), especially Led Zeppelin, the Grateful Dead,
Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Crosby/Stills/Nash/Young (separately
and in various combinations), the Beatles, the Rolling Stones,
Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Richard Thompson, the late, great Townes
van Zandt, the late, great Warren
Zevon, Peter Gabriel, James Taylor, Chris Smither, Steeleye
Span, Willis Alan Ramsey, Austin
Lounge Lizards, Camper Van Beethoven, They Might Be Giants
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Fan of the comedy of Monty Python, Spinal
Tap, The Simpsons, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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Enthusiastic but not terribly accomplished
musician (autoharp,
bowed psaltery)
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Student of pre-Columbian art and archaeology,
particularly the Maya
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Descendant of Scottish Clan MacIntosh
(motto: Touch not the cat bot [without] a glove)
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